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Art Matters • Ideas & Themes Illustrated

by Mariano Akerman


MIMESIS • William Mason Brown: Still Life


OBSERVATION • Image by Caloi


EXPRESSION • Portrait by David Hockney


REALISM • Karl Edouard Biermann: Berlin


POSE • Hyacinthe Rigaud: Louis XIV


CRITICISM • Francisco de Goya: Capricho #41


INVENTIVENESS • Max Ernst: "She looked slightly like a horse"


SIMPLIFICATION • Pablo Picasso: Self-Portrait


STYLIZATION • Portrait by Amedeo Modigliani


DEFORMATION • Francis Bacon: Self-Portrait


DOT • Pointillism by Georges Seurat


LINE • Informalism by Hans Hartung


TEXTURE • Innerscape


COLOR • Fauvist painting by André Derain


COMPOSITION • Three Figures by a Window


VIEWPOINT • Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida: Fifth Avenue, New York


BEAUTY • Albrecht Dürer: The Hare


UGLINESS • Basil Wolverton: Lena the Hyena


GROTESQUENESS • Xul Solar: To Be


ART HISTORY • ANTIQUITY • Assyrian-Babylonian Demon


ART HISTORY • MIDDLE AGES • French Gothic Gargoyle


ART HISTORY • RENAISSANCE • Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait


ART HISTORY • MODERN ART • René Magritte: The Betrayal of Images


PREWAR PERIOD • Pieter Paul Rubens: The Garden of Love


POSTWAR PERIOD • Alberto Giacometti: Walking Man


SOURCE OF INSPIRATION • Surreal Neoclassicism or Neoclassical Surrealism?


METAMORPHOSIS • Hybrid Collection Wallpaper by Matt & Sophie Nice


HISTORICAL CONTEXT • Karl Schwesig: Schlegelkeller


THE IMAGINARY • Then Lilies turned to Tigers


NARRATIVE • Recurrent motif tends to suggest a story


ABSTRACTION • Painting by Mark Rothko


COMPASSION • Käthe Kollwitz: The Mothers


PROVOCATION • Marcel Duchamp: The Fountain


MANNERISM • Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Water


SUGGESTION • Meret Oppenheim: Object


AMBIGUITY • Francis Bacon: Lying Figure in a Mirror


CAMOUFLAGE • Just don't expect it to roar


TACT • Homo sapiens by Quino


DECORUM • The Way Things Should Always Be


SYMBOLS • Gold and Ashes


SYMBOLISM • Georges Lacombe: Blue Seascape


ALLEGORY • Death playing with Soap Bubbles


ABSURDITY • Quino: Waiting for Godot?


VANITAS • Still Life by Justus Junker


MEMENTO MORI • Julia DeVille: Cinerarium


PATHOS • George Frederic Watts: Hope


HOPE • Both Eyes and Heart

4 comments:

Henrik Nielsen said...

Nice pictures, good news from you.

Romah Samuel said...

Hello, I just want to thank you for your amazing lecture. I really got a chance to learn a lot from you and appretiate the way you deliver the lecture. Take care and may God bless you. Thank you

Babur Kamal said...

It was good meeting last Saturday. I continue to enjoy immensely, the elaborate and very informative lectures. This was the fourth lecture I attended and each time, I have the pleasure of learning more about international art and its trends. I am delighted to experience your capacities and would like matters to remain this way for much of an extended period of time.

Lynley Ruth Butt said...

Thanks. Most enjoyable interlude in the world you had collated.